Professor, Department of Physics
String Theory, Theories of Gravity, Information Geometry, Classical and Quantum Phase Transitions.
FB-375,
Department of Physics
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016
PhD, Madras University (work done at IMSc, Chennai) 1999.
M.Sc., Research, Anna University (work done at IMSc, Chennai), 1995.
B.Sc., Presidency College (University of Calcutta) 1993
Classical Mechanics
Quantum Mechanics
Mathematical Physics
Electrodynamics
Special and General Relativity
Quantum Field Theory
P. K. Kelkar fellowship IIT Kanpur 2009 – 2012.
IRCC Research & Industrial Consultancy Award, IIT Bombay : Best Paper award of 2006 (Paper reviewed by Nobel Laureate).
Editorial Board Member of ISRN High Energy Physics (Hindawi).
Invited Lead Guest Editor for the Special Issue titled ``Information Geometry: from Black Holes to Condensed Matter Systems,'' published by Advances in High Energy Physics (impact factor : 3.5).